She's Just My Style - Remastered

This was the fifth of seven US Top 10 hits for Gary Lewis & the Playboys, and one of two that Lewis wrote along with Al Capps, Thomas Leslie and his arranger Leon Russell. In our interview with Gary Lewis, he said, "That was really fun. Leon and Snuffy (producer Snuff Garrett) said, 'All right, let's write a song about the California coast and the beach and the surf and the sun.' I said, 'Oh, so you want to do like a Beach Boys thing?' And they said, 'Yeah, yeah. With voices and a lot of harmonies and stuff like that.' I said, 'Well, great. I like the Beach Boys.' They recorded in the same studio that we recorded in, too. So I was always visiting them or they were coming and visiting me on my sessions. So that's what we were going for, a Beach Boys type sound. And 'Just My Style' was the second biggest tune we had for Liberty."

While appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show, Gary screwed up while lip-synching this song. Gary was up front, on guitar, singing the vocals; when he thought the song was about to end cold, he stepped back, away from the microphone. However, the song had another bar to go and he had to rush back up to the mike to finish up. Gary enjoyed these TV appearances, as there wasn't much work involved. "It really wasn't any pressure whatsoever, because back then they didn't have the facilities to mix anything. No band could play live, they all had to lip-synch. So there was no pressure whatsoever," said Lewis.